1、单选题：
Which is the oldest poem in the English language?
选项：
A:Utopia
B:Faerie Queene
C:Beowulf
D:The Canterbury Tales
答案: 【Beowulf】

2、单选题：
The first christian writer is ______.
选项：
A:Bede
B:Cynewulf
C:Geoffrey Chaucer
D:Caedmon
答案: 【Caedmon 】

3、单选题：
__________ embellish the whole of Beowulf. For example the sea is often “swan’sway” or “whale-path”; a soldier is often a “ shield-hololder or battle-hero” , etc.
选项：
A:Personifications
B:Alliterations
C:Understatements
D:Kennings
答案: 【Kennings】

4、单选题：
The chief form of medieval English literature is ____.
选项：
A:drama
B:epic
C:romance
D:tales
答案: 【romance】

5、单选题：
_____ is the father of English poetry.
选项：
A:Beowulf
B:William Shakespeare
C:Geoffrey Chaucer
D:Edmund Spenser
答案: 【Geoffrey Chaucer】

6、单选题：
The sketch of a middle-class woman in Chaucer’s time was vividly reflected in the tale told by ______.
选项：
A:the knight

B:the Oxford scholar
C:the prioress
D:the wife of Bath
答案: 【the wife of Bath】

7、多选题：
_______ began to come in large bands with the deliberate purpose of permanent settlement.
选项：
A:Jutes
B:Celts
C:Saxons
D:Angles
答案: 【Jutes;Saxons;Angles 】